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(No Model.)

' J. H. NICHOLSON;

SWING.

' Patented July 26,1392.

Igx7e1 ir 1 Q1015 071 UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JACOB H. NICHOLSON, OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROANOKE WOOD NOVELTY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SWING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,524, dated July 26, 1892.

Application fil d August 15, 1891. Serial No. 402,738. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: instance I have illustrated one especially Be it known that I, JACOB H. NICHOLSON, adapted for children. 12 designates the seat a citizen of the United States, residing at proper, which is rectangularin plan, and from Roanoke, in the county of Roanoke and State the four corners of the same rise bored standof Virginia, have invented a new and useful ards 13, the rear pair being connected by Swing, of which the following is a specificacross-bars 14:, which form a back. The cross- 2 tion. bars are perforated opposite the bores of the This invention relates to improvements in standards, and through the bores and perfoswings, and to that class thereof adapted to rations of the standards and bars are passed 10 be operated by the person within the swing. the lower ends of the two rear ropes. The

The objects of my invention are to provide front bored standards are connected to the R a swing of very simple construction, adapted rear standards by arm-rests 15, which are also to be easily operated by the person therein, perforated for the passage of the ropes, and and to be suspended removably indoors from through the front ends of the arm-rests and 1 5 aceiling, doorway, or other place, or outdoors, the standards and seat pass the front pair of if desired, from a porch or other convenient ropes, said ropes being knotted or otherwise point. secured under the seat. A safety-bar 16 may Other objects and advantages of the invenbe loosely connected with one of the front tion will appear in the following description ropes and notched at 16, whereby it is re- 20 and the novel features thereof will be particumovably connected with the opposite rope, 7o larly pointed out in the claims. and when the bar is in position the child is Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perprevented from accidentally falling from the spective of a swing constructed in accordance swing. with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail in perl7 designatesarock-shaft, the ends of which 25 spective of the rocking shaft. Fig. 3 isa deare reduced to form bearing-trunnions 18, tail in perspective of one of the shaft-supportwhich trunnionsremovablytake into the bearing hooks. ing-eyes 8 of the hooks. The rock-shaft is Like numerals of reference indicate like provided at its center with a forwardly-disparts in all the figures of the drawings. posed curved arm 19, having a perforation at 0 1 designates the ceiling-of aporch,ro0m, or its extremity, and through said perforation other suitable support, and to the same is and knotted in front of the'same is passed secured a securing-plate 2, in any suitable the propellingrope 21, the free end of the rope manner, as by screws, and from the center of being passed over the grooved pulley 4,.which said plate there depends a compoundlyis directly in rear of the central rock-arm,

5 curved arm 3, rigid with the plate and having and, depending below the pulley, terminates its lower end bifurcated, and a pulley proin a hand-pull 22 over the seat, within reach vided with a grooved periphery loosely jourof the occupant. Near its ends the rock-shaft naled in the bifurcation. At opposite sides is provided with side rock-arms 23, which deof the securing-plate 2 there is secured to the pend from the rock-shaft, and are disposed ata 4o ceiling 1 a pair of hooks 5. These hooks conright angle therefrom and also ataright angle sist of the shank 6, beyond which said hook to the central rock-arm. The extremities of is coiled to form an eye 7, and beyond the eyes the side rock-arms are provided with outdepend and are bent to form bearing-eyes 8. wardly-disposed coiled eyes 24, which eyes re- Rings 10 are mounted in the eyes 7, and from movably engage with the rear pair of ropes.

5 the same depend supporting-ropes 11, a pair This completes the construction, and the being located in each ring and the latter beoperation is as follows: The occupant of the ing removably mounted in the eyes, as will swing or, if it be a child, an attendant draws be apparent. upon the hand-pull of the propelling-rope,

Any form of seat may be employed that and through the medium of the latter rotates 50 may be found desirable, and in the present the rock-shaft in its bearings, which causes 10o the opposite side rock-arms to swing to the rear and with them the ropes'with which they are connected. After giving a pull of this kind the propelling-rope is slackened and the swing moves forward, and upon its return movement is again actuated by the propelling-rope, and so on until a momentum has been secured, and this may be readily maintained by occasional slight pulls as the swing moves to the rear.

It will be obvious that, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the propelling-rope may be made longer and below the seat provided with a foot-rest, whereby the swing may be operated by the feet of the operator.

It will be seen from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, that I provide a swing adapted to be operated by the occupant, said swing being of great simplicity and capable of being cheaply manufactured and sold. Furthermore, it will be obvious that by re moving'the rock-shaft from the bearings and disconnecting the rock-arms from the ropes and the rings from the hooks the entire apparatus may be compactly stored out of the way when not in use and may be readily set up when desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a swing of the class described, the combination, with the depending standard secured to a ceiling and provided with a pulley, the hooks arranged at opposite sides of the standard, rings removably mounted in the hooks, and ropes depending from the rings and connected with the seat, of a rock-shaft removably mounted in bearings at the inner sides of the hooks, a central rock-arm extending forwardly from the shaft, a propellingrope connected to the end of the rock-arm and passing rearwardly over the pulley of the standard, from which latter it depends, and opposite rock-arms depending from the ends of the rock-shaft and removably connected with opposite seat-suspension ropes, substantially as specified.

2. In a swing of the class described, the combination, with the securingplate connected with the ceiling and having the depending bifurcated standard provided with a grooved pulley, the opposite hooks arranged at equidistant sides of the standard and consistin g of the shank portions, the coiled hooks beyond the same and terminating in the bearing-eyes, the rings mounted in the hooks, the opposite pairs of ropes depending from the rings, and the seat supported at the lower end of the ropes, of the transverse rock shaft terminating in bearings removably mounted in the bearing-eyes of the hooks, the centrally-located and forwardly-disposed rockarm projecting from the shaft, the propellingrope connected to the front end of the arm, passed rearwardly over and depending from the grooved pulley, and terminating in a pull, the opposite rock-arms depending from the rock-shaft near the ends thereof and disposed at a right angle to the central rock-arm, and the coiled hooks extending from the lower ends of the end rock-arms and removably engaging with the rear ropes, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' JACOB II. NICHOLSON.

Witnesses:

H. M. DARNALL, S. S. XVALLAoE. 

